Washington -- Senators Coons, D-Del., Daines, R-Mont., Wyden, D-Ore., and Lee, R-Utah, introduced the Review the Rule Act today that would temporarily stop the government from gaining new hacking powers until the new Congress has an opportunity to review the changes. Congress would need to pass [ More ... ]Read More

Washington -- Senator Ron Wyden today asked for Senate approval by unanimous consent of his Stopping Mass Hacking Act (S. 2952), which would temporarily block a dangerous expansion of the government’s hacking authority from taking effect. Unfortunately, other members of the chamber objected to [ More ... ]Read More

Washington -- Today Senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul introduced the Stopping Mass Hacking Act (S. 2952), a bill that would block a controversial expansion of the government’s hacking authority from taking effect. Congress currently has until December 1st to reject the Department of Justice’s [ More ... ]Read More

Washington - Senate leaders have removed a controversial reporting requirement from the Intelligence Authorization Act. The measure would have turned online communications companies into Internet police, making it mandatory for them to report evidence of any potential terrorist activity, [ More ... ]Read More

Last Thursday, CCIA hosted a panel discussion on a host of cybersecurity information sharing bills under debate in Congress. The event, which was opened by remarks from Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., aimed to capture the tension between the need for a robust information sharing regime between the [ More ... ]Read More

As cybersecurity threats increase in sophistication each year, the sharing of cyber threat information between the government and private sector has become a high priority.
President Obama signed an executive order designed to facilitate information sharing, and offered a legislative proposal to [ More ... ]Read More

Washington – Senators Richard Blumenthal, Rand Paul, Mark Udall and Ron Wyden have introduced bipartisan legislation this week to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to curtail the overbroad collection of bulk communications data that the government has claimed was legal. The [ More ... ]Read More

As Congress examines electronic surveillance and privacy issues in the wake of the NSA revelations, we are pleased that increasingly members on both sides of the aisle are realizing what is at stake in this issue, and voiced support this week for preserving the freedoms our founding fathers [ More ... ]Read More

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